{"id":2421,"date":"2011-07-10T02:01:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T01:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elwinlee.com\/blog\/?p=2421"},"modified":"2017-03-24T20:12:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T19:12:09","slug":"google-maps-short-urls-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/google-maps-short-urls-2\/","title":{"rendered":"[How] Google Maps Short URLs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The experimental short <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/\">GoogleMaps<\/a> URLs stopped working since the beta launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/\">Google+<\/a>. This was very upsetting, because we were sent back to the stone-age with super duper long URLs. For example this is the full link to GoogleMaps with a view on my old university in Eindhoven The Netherlands <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/preview#!q=Technische+Universiteit+Eindhoven%2C+Centrum%2C+Eindhoven%2C+Nederland&#038;data=!1m4!1m3!1d5018!2d5.4893414!3d51.4487944!4m11!1m10!4m8!1m3!1d1563190!2d-74.724323!3d40.07304!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!17b1\">https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/preview#!q=Technische+Universiteit+Eindhoven%2C+Centrum%2C+Eindhoven%2C+Nederland&#038;data=!1m4!1m3!1d5018!2d5.4893414!3d51.4487944!4m11!1m10!4m8!1m3!1d1563190!2d-74.724323!3d40.07304!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!17b1<\/a>.<br \/>\nIt would get even longer if you have more search terms and filtering enabled.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, back to the main reason why you people are reading this.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/<\/a> and simply paste your GoogleMaps URL and voila!!<br \/>\nOur new link would be <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/JmgYe\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/JmgYe<\/a><br \/>\nThere you have it! Short links again \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It requires a bit more work than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googlelabs.com\/\">Labs<\/a> experiment (clicking on the link button vs. going to <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/<\/a> and enter the url). <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/<\/a> works with every link you want to shorten and it saves all the short urls that you&#8217;ve made before if you have a Google Account!! Here&#8217;s the short(er) link to my blog <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/UxBIh\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/UxBIh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to get Google Maps Short URLs (July 2011) after Google removed the option from the experimental Google Labs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1079,255],"tags":[1081,1082,476,1083,786,882,883,885,886,887,888,908,909,910,911,912,1080],"class_list":["post-2421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to-fix-stuff","category-technology","tag-goo","tag-gl","tag-google","tag-account","tag-working","tag-google-maps","tag-short-url","tag-short","tag-google-labs","tag-labs","tag-short-link","tag-maps","tag-url","tag-link","tag-plus","tag-google-plus","tag-goo-gl"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/google-url-shortener.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mtRf-D3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54146,"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions\/54146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}